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When I first started showing up on IG (back in 2017), my focus was to share life lessons and to document my mental health journey as a person living with chronic depression. In 2025, I can finally say….that depression no longer rules my life 🥹 I have my highs and lows, and good and bad days, but for the past 2 years I have found a much better balance and I’m so proud of myself for that. Here are 5 life lessons I want to share with you as we all step into another year:

1) Realizing this reality is scary, but with the right framing it is truly empowering. When I realized that the only person’s approval I needed to make moves with my life was ME, doors started to open up in my imagination. Did you realize that you’re an adult now? That you have AGENCY in your life and that YOU are the hero in your own life? A lot of us spend our lives waiting around for someone to come and tell us what to do… well guess what? Everyone’s too busy with their own issues. Wake up, and be the boss of yourself.

2) For years and years, I would delay making moves in my life because I wasn’t 100% sure that I would like that new direction. Questions would flood me like: “will i want to keep doing that in 5 years? Is it practical? What if i start it and hate it?” And then another year would pass, I wouldn’t make the change, I would still be thinking about it, time kept moving on. In 2025, I decided that I would make the change and take it DAY BY DAY. I would live my life as it happened instead of trying to guess the ending before the book was written. If I wanted to change my mind in a week, in a year, in many years, it would be OK but I rather not live with inaction and stagnancy and worse of all: regret.

3) How many times have you thought about how amazing it would be to learn to do something new (to dance, to cook, to do pottery, to INVEST) but stopped yourself after you started learning because you sucked at it. (Continued in the comments)